Can I accept and legally fill a prescription for glasses or contact lenses that has been sent to my place of business by fax or other electronic means?
A. The Board has recently adopted a policy concerning the use of electronic means to send prescriptions and the optician’s and ocularist’s ability to fill the prescription. See below: Statement Electronic prescription transmission systems allow prescriptions to be sent electronically from a prescriber to an optician’s place of practice. The electronic system may be office-based, web-based, and some use a switching station to route the prescription to the optical dispenser. Office base systems allow the prescriber to send a prescription electronically directly from the prescriber’s office to the optical dispenser’s place of practice. The web-based systems allow the prescriber to log onto a website, enter a prescription, and the website sends the prescription to the place of practice. Systems utilizing a switching station allow the prescriber to enter a prescription that is transmitted to a switching station. The switching station identifies the prescriber using specific data elements an
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